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Consumer Lending: Should Banks Do It?

Jeff For Banks

When I first read Standards Needed for Safe, Small Installment Loans from Banks, Credit Unions by the Pew Charitable Trusts that encouraged financial institutions to get back into small ticket consumer lending, I thought “what are they nuts!” Ever since we formed our company in 2001, this has been the case. Real estate secured.

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Facebook Faces Billions In Possible GDPR Fines

PYMNTS

Also in Europe, the European financial markets regulator has said that it wants to spend one million euros to promote market stability in the region as pertains to cryptocurrencies and FinTechs. community banks and small business lending. The one million euros will be spent through 2019, according to reports.

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B2B FinTechs Diversify Funding Strategies With M&A, IPOs

PYMNTS

Talk of a decelerating FinTech venture capital market continued to mount this week with reports that digital banking startup Aspiration is struggling to raise money. Funding Xchange secured $10.3 million as it prepares to launch its lending-in-a-box offering, according to Asset Finance International. Funding Xchange secured $10.3

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

The old borrow short, lend long strategy. The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 What caused it?

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CFPB Cracks Down On Deceptive Lender Who Targeted 9/11 First Responders

PYMNTS

Owned and operated by Donadio and headquartered in Verona, New Jersey, Top Notch is a company that marketed loans to consumers who were on tap to receive payments from legal settlements or victim compensation funds. Our proposed order seeks to knock these parties out of this business altogether, and impose penalties on them.”.

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A Decline in Personal Savings

TrustBank

By the 1990’s, improvements in technology and further changes to securities regulations made it easier for corporate customers to access financial markets directly. This forced banks to renew their focus on middle market commercial banking and consumers. Recall the NINJA loans (No Income, No Job, Apply).

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

CB Insights

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. Market strategy outside the US. Through trial and error, the company has set up key financial pillars across payments, cash deposits, and lending.

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